Lesley Higginson was 72 years old when she died at her home in January 2026.  The publication today of a Preventing Future Deaths report means this is the 24th PFD notice which links to the Right Care, Right Person programme and it is sufficiently similar to certain others we’ve seen.  Yet still we are exposing […]

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There are a few blogs in my ‘drafts’ folder, which I’ve resisted publishing because they relate to frustrations I had with my former employer’s approach to mental health policy and practice in policing.  The topic for this post is one on which I’d started drafting thoughts a couple of times but only after today did […]

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The latest annual publication from the Independent Office for Police Conduct is just out, covering their “Deaths during or following police custody or contact” for 2025/6 –  and you can find all the other IOPC reports for previous years on one of my resources pages. Across the five categories of deaths counted by the IOPC, […]

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